Funerals
The Essay. Nothing Is Real - Pop's Struggle with Authenticity, The rock'n'roll funeral. Audio, 14 minutes
David Hepworth asks if pop music has any place in the great ceremonies of life and death.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
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The Digital Human. Series 12, Ritual. Audio, 30 minutes
Aleks Krotoski explores whether we use rituals enough in the digital world.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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The Inquiry. What Can We Do With Our Dead? Audio, 23 minutes
Cemeteries around the world are fast running out of space.
- AttributionBBC World Service
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- Posted1 September 2017
The Funeral Singer. Audio, 28 minutes
Reverend Kate Bottley investigates the growth of professional funeral singers in Britain.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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Heart and Soul. Giving Death Back to the People. Audio, 27 minutes
An intimate portrait of a funeral director committed to doing death differently…
- AttributionBBC World Service
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The Documentary Podcast. Living with the Dead. Audio, 27 minutes
How some Indonesians live with dead family members for years
- AttributionBBC World Service
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The Documentary Podcast. Songs for the Dead. Audio, 27 minutes
The role of Irish keeners - women who were paid to cry, wail and sing over the dead
- AttributionBBC World Service
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Simon Evans Goes to Market. Series 3, Death. Audio, 30 minutes
From paying for funerals to cryonics, what are the economics of death?
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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Songs for the Dead. Audio, 30 minutes
Marie-Louise Muir explores the lost tradition of keening for the dead in Ireland.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4 Extra
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The Design Dimension. Series 3, Death by Design. Audio, 28 minutes
Tom Dyckhoff examines the importance of design after death.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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Assignment. Greece: No Place to Die. Audio, 23 minutes
The complex business of dying in Greece where the dead are exhumed after three years
- AttributionBBC World Service
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Crossing Continents. Greece: No Place to Die. Audio, 28 minutes
The complex business of dying in Greece. With Chloe Hadjimatheou.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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Thinking Allowed. Zoos explored, Funeral arranging. Audio, 28 minutes
Laurie Taylor goes on a sociological safari, plus a look at reasons behind funeral choices
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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5 Live Investigates. Doping in rugby and funeral costs. Audio, 47 minutes
How serious is doping in grassroots rugby? Plus the rising cost of funerals.
- AttributionBBC Radio 5 Live
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Pushing Up the Daisies. Audio, 28 minutes
As she approaches her 80th year, Penelope Simpson decides to paint her own coffin.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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The Why Factor. Burial. Audio, 18 minutes
Burial is a practice that’s been carried out for centuries – but why do we do it?
- AttributionBBC World Service
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Assignment. A Death In Honduras. Audio, 25 minutes
A profile of the People's Funeral Service in Honduras, the most murderous nation on earth.
- AttributionBBC World Service
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Crossing Continents. A Death in Honduras. Audio, 28 minutes
A profile of the People's Funeral Service in Honduras, the most murderous nation on earth.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Feed Me to the Wind. Audio, 28 minutes
Across Britain, cremation ashes remain uncollected. Amanda Mitchinson investigates why.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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Face the Facts. A Death Unnoticed. Audio, 26 minutes
John Waite finds out about the funerals organised by councils.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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All in a Day's Work. Undertakers. Audio, 23 minutes
Undertaking is a lucrative business
- AttributionBBC World Service
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Soul Music. Series 3, Barber's Adagio for Strings. Audio, 30 minutes
Leonard Slatkin on the impact of the adagio that became America's 'national funeral music'
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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African Perspective. Death in Malawi. Audio, 30 minutes
The rising death rate in due to AIDS and the effect it's having on the cost of funerals
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
